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# Action: Create Label

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<p align="center">The Create Label action generates a new custom label in Gmail for organizing emails.</p>

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#### Example User Story

I want to create a 'Vendor Invoices' label to automatically categorize financial emails.

#### Fields

| Field Name            | Field Type | Required |
| --------------------- | ---------- | -------- |
| name                  | String     | Yes      |
| labelListVisibility   | String     | No       |
| messageListVisibility | String     | No       |
| id                    | String     | No       |
| accessToken           | String     | Yes      |

### Related Connections

[Gmail](/human-connections/google/gmail.md)

### Related Automations

Example link

### Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

```
{
  "handle": "create-label",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "Create Label",
    "description": "Creates a new label in Gmail."
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "name",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Name of the label to create."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "labelListVisibility",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Label visibility in the label list.",
        "options": ["labelShow", "labelHide"]
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "messageListVisibility",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "Label visibility in the message list.",
        "options": ["show", "hide"]
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "id",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["id"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The ID of the created label."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "name",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["name"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The name of the created label."
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/gmail/v1/users/me/labels",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/json"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "{\"name\": \"{{name}}\", \"labelListVisibility\": \"{{labelListVisibility}}\", \"messageListVisibility\": \"{{messageListVisibility}}\"}",
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "name": "name",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "Name of the label to create.",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "labelListVisibility",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "Label visibility in the label list.",
              "required": false,
              "options": ["labelShow", "labelHide"]
            },
            {
              "name": "messageListVisibility",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "Label visibility in the message list.",
              "required": false,
              "options": ["show", "hide"]
            },
            {
              "name": "accessToken",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "Access token for authenticating with Gmail API.",
              "required": true
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

```

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